Tony Ferrino Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 Not quite the same, but my sister booked a Tesco grocery delivery during lock down and put in 6 bottles of wine to confirm the slot. She meant to go back but forgot. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venti Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 10 hours ago, kingjoey said: Just found Creamfields brie last week. Superb. Couple of bits on LU Le Petit Beurré biscuits is a great snack. . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 Cold vomit for American chocolate 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 2 minutes ago, Cosmic Joe said: Cold vomit for American chocolate A cocktail of fruit scented cleaning chemicals for Jolly Ranchers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forest_Fifer Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 On 16/10/2023 at 06:41, Derry Alli said: Prices are mad just now on groceries. I can replace certain items but things I can't find with as good as taste include: Frosties : supermarket own brands fall quite a bit behind. Salad cream : nothing comes close to Heinz. Hit me with your best replacement (cheaper!) replacements to these and add your own into the thread. Thank you. Well, you could replace the salad cream with f**k all, as it's rank in the first place. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 It’s struck me , reading this thread that i barely buy branded stuff at all and haven’t for ages. I do have exceptions. There is no suitable cheap substitute for koka noodles (spicy or Tom yam, not fucking curry) because all suitable substitutes are more expensive. There are no adequate substitutes for encona chilli sauce or maggi chilli ketchup, there are adequate but sub optimal substitutes for flying goose sriracha, and most own brand sweet chilli sauce is as good as blue dragon. I like chilli sauce. The only other branded thing I buy is toothpaste. Anyone use own brands for that? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jives Miguel Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 Aldi is an absolute fucking bin of a place, I'm done with it as of today. Just bought a pack of Strawberries with a best before of 20th October. Whole pack in the bin as soon as I got home as two of them were completely rotted. Not for the first time either. Constantly have milk from them turning sour well before the due date as well. Tesco it is. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loonytoons Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 40 minutes ago, Jives Miguel said: Aldi is an absolute fucking bin of a place, I'm done with it as of today. Just bought a pack of Strawberries with a best before of 20th October. Whole pack in the bin as soon as I got home as two of them were completely rotted. Not for the first time either. Constantly have milk from them turning sour well before the due date as well. Tesco it is. I'll give you the milk scenario but don't you look at fruit and veg before you buy it? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jives Miguel Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 32 minutes ago, Loonytoons said: I'll give you the milk scenario but don't you look at fruit and veg before you buy it? Well I think I would need Xray vision in order to know that there are 2 rotted strawberries in amongst a pack of them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 25 minutes ago, Jives Miguel said: Well I think I would need Xray vision in order to know that there are 2 rotted strawberries in amongst a pack of them. Why’d you throw the rest away? Bit wasteful. There’s hungry kids would have loved those strawberries. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 Shoplifting is a great replacement for paying inflated supermarket prices. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pozbaird Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 Haven’t read the thread, so apologies if already posted - the Aldi versions (rip offs?) of Snickers, Mars Bars, and Twix, are, in my opinion, better. I think their Snickers is a ‘Titan’, and their Twix is a ‘Jive’. All I know is I genuinely think all three Aldi versions are even better than the real thing* * I think Aldi’s version of Bono and U2 is Bonox & U3. Maybees. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jives Miguel Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 16 hours ago, coprolite said: Why’d you throw the rest away? Bit wasteful. There’s hungry kids would have loved those strawberries. Because rot and mould spreads like covid on fruits. The whole pack is compromised if even one of them is fucked. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 Just now, Jives Miguel said: Because rot and mould spreads like covid on fruits. The whole pack is compromised if even one of them is fucked. I just throw out rancid ones and cut out overripe bits and they're fine. Aldi fresh produce does need extra qa/qc checks when you're buying it though. Last year i just spotted a daddy long legs in my salad before i ate it. Yesterday i had to rinse spiders web off grapes before eating them. The wife found the spider in there later on. I wouldn’t hold out too much hope for tesco though. I almost bought a two week out of date wedge of Brie in one before. Their fresh stuff is generally better. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 3 minutes ago, coprolite said: Aldi fresh produce does need extra qa/qc checks when you're buying it though. Last year i just spotted a daddy long legs in my salad before i ate it. Yesterday i had to rinse spiders web off grapes before eating them. The wife found the spider in there later on. Well, that's that. I'm never eating fresh food again. Pre-processed all the way from now on. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 3 minutes ago, scottsdad said: Well, that's that. I'm never eating fresh food again. Pre-processed all the way from now on. Finely chopped, evenly distributed factory spider is fine. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'WellDel Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 The one that's really been boiling my piss for a while now with fresh produce and that is impossible to tell before buying, is potatoes with black spots. We go through a lot of spuds, and seem to spend a lot of time hacking bits off that are gubbed, or discarding altogether. Never seemed to be anywhere near as bad until the last year or so, and doesn't matter which supermarket or type of tattie. What's changed there? Just bad handling, storage etc., or a cheapening of farming methods? Either way it's a pain in the hole. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 44 minutes ago, 'WellDel said: The one that's really been boiling my piss for a while now with fresh produce and that is impossible to tell before buying, is potatoes with black spots. We go through a lot of spuds, and seem to spend a lot of time hacking bits off that are gubbed, or discarding altogether. Never seemed to be anywhere near as bad until the last year or so, and doesn't matter which supermarket or type of tattie. What's changed there? Just bad handling, storage etc., or a cheapening of farming methods? Either way it's a pain in the hole. Ask on the Celtic thread. They'll have potato disease experts I'm sure. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'WellDel Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 12 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said: Ask on the Celtic thread. They'll have potato disease experts I'm sure. Ooohhhhh... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 (edited) I prefer Danpak Norpak (think it's Aldi) to Lurpak in the butter dept. Maybe because I like the salty taste. (waits for it...) Edited October 19, 2023 by Hedgecutter 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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